football
08/16/2022 2:04:00 p.m
“The biggest thing that impressed me about the safeties during fall camp is their knowledge of the big picture, understanding everything and being much further along in the playbook,” the second-year defensive coordinator and head coach said. safety. Ephraim Banda. “Mentally, it’s been really encouraging. Physically, I’m really proud of the top two guys in Hunter (Reynolds) and Gurvan (Hall Jr.) as far as chasing the ball. They’re relentless and I’m really proud for them effort”.
Utah State returns a starter here in the graduating senior Hunter Reynolds, who started 12 of the 14 games he played in last season and finished the year with 83 tackles, which included 1.0 sacks and 4.0 tackles for loss, to go along with two pass breakups, an interception and a fumble recovery . In fact, Reynolds finished the 2021 season second on the team in tackles. Overall, he has appeared in 34 career games after spending four years at Michigan before transferring to USU prior to the 2021 season.
Utah State also welcomes back four more redshirts at the junior safety position Dominic Tatum AND Dusten Ramseyer-Burdettsophomore student Luke Marion and beginners Ike Larsen. Tatum is the most experienced player in this group having played in 14 games with five starts and has 43 career tackles, including 1.0 tackles for loss, to go along with six pass breakups. Marion has played in four games over his first two years with the program and has three career touchdowns, to go along with an interception and a pass breakup. And, Larsen appeared in two games last season in his first year with the program.
Along with the five players mentioned above, Utah State added three juniors here to seniors Gurvan Hall Jr. (West Palm Beach, Florida/Palm Beach Gardens HS/Miami), and freshmen Saco Alofipo (Henderson, Nevada/Liberty HS) and Jett Solomon (Las Vegas, Nevada/Desert Pines HS).
Hall is the most experienced player among this group, as he spent four seasons at the University of Miami, appearing in 43 career games with 18 starts and totaling 148 tackles, which included 2.0 sacks and 6.0 tackles for loss. six pass breakups, one interception and one fumble recovery.
“My expectations for safeties this year are pretty clear and they’re the same every year – run extremely hard to the ball and tackle. Most importantly, throw the ball into the open field. Then, be really smart in those moments of the situation. “Be clean in your assignments and don’t let big plays happen. Do that and we’ll be very good defensively,” Banda added.
Utah State will open the 2022 season on Saturday, Aug. 27, when it hosts Connecticut at 2 p.m., in a game that will be nationally televised on Fox Sports 1. USU then plays at Alabama on Saturday, Sept. 3 and waits Weber. State on Saturday, Sept. 10, before starting MW play at home against UNLV on Saturday, Sept. 24, in a game that will be nationally televised on the CBS Sports Network at 5 p.m.
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